Lack of consistency between five definitions of nonprogression in cohorts of HIV-infected seroconverters

AIDS

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 959-965

  Strathdee, Steffanie A ^a,f   Veugelers, Paul J ^b   Page Shafer, Kimberly A ^c   McNulty, Anna ^d   Moss, Andrew R ^e   Schechter, Martin T ^a   Van Griensven, Godfried J P ^b   Coutinho, Roel A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b MUNICIPAL HEALTH SERVICE   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f BRITISH COLUMBIA CENTRE FOR EXCELLENCE IN HIV AIDS   (Canada)

Author keywords

HIV; Homosexual men; Nonprogressors; Seroconverters

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEROCONVERSION;

EID: 0030014122     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002030-199610090-00005     Document Type: Article

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